Cheers to another great week!
February 28, 2012
Week in Photos
I know it's Tuesday but I want to share photos of our week, starting with last week. I thought this would be a cool way to share photos of the girls and the activities we do. Hope you enjoy.
We made pizza, Sarah told me what ingredients to use. Like the headband??
Katie rolled over in her crib
Sarah helped me wash the bottles, she may be slightly OCD
Katie ate rice cereal for the first time
I made strawberry muffins for Dave's class
My husband was kind enough to take a photo of my roasted red pepper cream sauce making skills
Taught Sarah how to play Nintendo...yes, we love Mario
I had a blast baking cookies, took about 5 hours and I loved every minute of it
Sarah shopping at the mall, love her style!
Cheers to another great week!
Cheers to another great week!
February 9, 2012
That ugly "F" word
Failure...it's probably the worst "F" word you could say to me. I was forced to face it today. It sounds pretty trivial when I say it outloud, but my failure today sent me into a stressed-out slump.
I've been gearing up to bake cupcakes, from scratch, for about 2 weeks now. I received a fancy cupcake book and thought I'd give it a shot. Yesterday I went to the grocery store and bought the ingredients that I needed...I was able to do this only because I had a sitter to watch my anti-grocery shopping baby!
So, when Sarah was at school and Katie was sleeping I got my book out and started at it. The cupcakes were pretty easy and not too time consuming. The frosting on the other hand was a different story! I literally spent 2 hours in the kitchen mixing three different batches of the same frosting recipe. For all you bakers out there...the first batch didn't peak properly, the second tasted like I was eating a stick of butter and the third turned to soup when I added a carmel sauce that I also made from scratch.
I gave up when it was time for dinner. I was overwhelmed with this frustrated feeling that I couldn't shake. I knew I shouldn't be so upset that the frosting didn't turn out...it was only cupcakes! After staying in this slump for about an hour I realized it was more than the frosting not being perfect (edible at that), it was about me failing. Ugh, what an ugly truth.
I don't have any inspirational, motivational mumbo-jumbo to share after discovering this; but I do have an appreciation for learning something about myself...ugly and all.
Isn't it amazing what baking can teach us!
I've been gearing up to bake cupcakes, from scratch, for about 2 weeks now. I received a fancy cupcake book and thought I'd give it a shot. Yesterday I went to the grocery store and bought the ingredients that I needed...I was able to do this only because I had a sitter to watch my anti-grocery shopping baby!
So, when Sarah was at school and Katie was sleeping I got my book out and started at it. The cupcakes were pretty easy and not too time consuming. The frosting on the other hand was a different story! I literally spent 2 hours in the kitchen mixing three different batches of the same frosting recipe. For all you bakers out there...the first batch didn't peak properly, the second tasted like I was eating a stick of butter and the third turned to soup when I added a carmel sauce that I also made from scratch.
I gave up when it was time for dinner. I was overwhelmed with this frustrated feeling that I couldn't shake. I knew I shouldn't be so upset that the frosting didn't turn out...it was only cupcakes! After staying in this slump for about an hour I realized it was more than the frosting not being perfect (edible at that), it was about me failing. Ugh, what an ugly truth.
I don't have any inspirational, motivational mumbo-jumbo to share after discovering this; but I do have an appreciation for learning something about myself...ugly and all.
Isn't it amazing what baking can teach us!
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